The Emperor Sailing, from The Story of the Emperor of China, Beauvais, 1716/22. Scene from the lives of the Chinese emperor Shunzhi and his son, the emperor Kangxi. Woven at the Manufacture Royale de Beauvais under the direction of Pierre and Etienne Filleul.

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